This was my crystalline link: the old man to Ilgauskas to Dostoevsky to Russia.

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Ones in which the characters are colder and more miserable than you (Chekhov stories, Ibsen plays, Dostoevsky doorstops)?

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I'm so terrified that I might sound like Dostoevsky, and I always think you wish you sounded like Dostoevsky.

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He named it Notes from the Underground, a title lifted from Dostoevsky.

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This is the city of Balanchine and Baryshnikov, Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky.

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She reminded him of the young men who people Dostoevsky's novels, youths with a heightened sense of injustice and a longing to change the world.

ECONOMIST: Anastasia Baburova

For Glocer, those interests include reading "anything by Roth, Rushdie, Saramago, Camus, Mahfouz, Mann, Dostoevsky, Helprin, Marquez, Houellebecq, " and listening to, amongst others, the Grateful Dead, U2 and Coldplay.

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From Dostoevsky, to, you name the author.

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